[ale] Slackware Motherboards and a New HDD

[Jeff Hubbs]

When you partitioned the drive, did you mark the first partition as
bootable?

- Jeff

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 21:34, Adrin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Well, I bought a 80Gig drive for my 60MHZ ASRocks K7VT2 Linux system.  It currently runs
> Red Hat. I was going to give Slackware a try now though. Here is my problem.  I can do the
> software install, boot form the CDROM, FORMAT the drive partition and all that.
> 
> Now the problems comes after. When I reboot the system never loads the OS. The last thing
> on the boot list is "IDE: Boot OK."  I just wonder at this point if I am not doing some
> correctly on the Slackware side or if the mother board just doesn't support a large boot
> partition. In which case I got lucky when I partitioned the 40 Gig drive to smaller
> partitions.
> 
> Does anyone know of such limits on mother boards?  I have been looking on the website.
> 
> Adrin
> 
> 
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